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March 24, 2013 |By JAKE ELLISON

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A rescue volunteers pours water over a whale as a woman, left, covers its blow hole to prevent water from entering, at Noordhoek beach near the city of Cape Town, South Africa, Sunday, March 24, 2013. South African officials say 19 pilot whales have beached in Cape Town and five of them have died. Police and other rescue workers are hosing down the surviving whales at Noordhoek Beach to try to keep them alive.

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A rescue volunteers pours water over a whale as a woman, left, covers its blow hole to prevent water from entering, at Noordhoek beach near the city of Cape Town, South Africa, Sunday, March 24, 2013. South African officials say 19 pilot whales have beached in Cape Town and five of them have died. Police and other rescue workers are hosing down the surviving whales at Noordhoek Beach to try to keep them alive.